But the party doesn't want that - it would undermine the current leadership, and he'd be accused of boosting Hillary to the detriment of some other possible frontrunners in 2008. |
If he was out there hugging kids and feeling people's pain, he'd become a huge and important symbol, |
It sounds good, it sounds like talking tough. And there is definitely a constituency within the United States, particularly the Congress, that believes China is the new Soviet Union, the new enemy. But it only becomes the enemy if we make them one, |
So the sense of where the problem is has shifted as people become more sophisticated about what exactly is going on, |
The people here are following the issue carefully enough that they're aware of that detail. |